Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.

Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.

Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.

Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.

Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.

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UC Davis Medical Center ranks among U.S. News & World Report's 2012-13 list of Most Connected Hospitals, a distinction that only 156 of the 5,300 American hospitals included in the survey qualified for as of July 2012. Only 16 California hospitals met Most Connected criteria, and UC San Diego was the only other UC medical center campus to receive the designation.

U.S. News' Most Connected Hospitals list recognizes hospitals that meet high standards for care and are at the forefront of national efforts to adopt electronic health records. The clinical criteria included achieving a national ranking in 2012-13 U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals or Best Children's Hospitals, or earning the designation of "high-performing" in one or more medical specialties along with each hospital or one or more of its major units, such as a children's hospital within the larger institution.

The information technology criteria included meeting the federal government's electronic health record meaningful use requirements, and achieving either Stage 6 or 7 in the HIMSS Analytics EMR adoption model. HIMSS Analytics is a division of the nonprofit Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society that conducts surveys and site visits to evaluate how far hospitals have progressed toward fully incorporating health information technology into every aspect of clinical care. HIMSS ranks hospitals on a scale from 0 to 7, with Stage 7 being the highest level of IT integration.

UC Davis achieved the EMR Adoption Model Stage 6 Award in December 2010 and is working toward Stage 7 designation. The HIMSS organization recognizes Stage 6 hospitals as advancing toward the completely digital health-care environment and having significant advantages over other health-care institutions in terms of patient safety and clinician support. An example of this technology at UC Davis is the sophisticated EMR that enables physicians to document patient encounters using online clinical documentation templates and back-end voice recognition technology.

Stage 6 also means that most patient clinical results (text, data and image-based) are available in the electronic medical record and that all inpatient, ambulatory, emergency department and home-health clinical encounters are managed and documented using the same digital health record. UC Davis also is a leader in health-care information exchange, including the ability to interface content from clinical equipment (such as hemodynamic monitors) into the EMR, as well as exchange clinical data with other, external Epic EMR users.

UC Davis also was recently named among the nation's information technology leaders, according to the 2012 "Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study" conducted by Hospitals and Health Networks magazine. UC Davis is one of only 11 institutions in California designated "Most Wired" out of a total of 1,570 hospitals that completed surveys. The annual study examines how hospitals use information technology to address and enhance patient safety, quality of care, public health, administrative processes and workforce decisions.

U.S. News also ranks UC Davis Medical Center among the top 50 hospitals in the nation for cancer, which places it among the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide. UC Davis also ranks among the Best Hospitals in the Northern Sierra region in 11 medical specialties: cardiology and heart surgery; diabetes and endocrinology; ear, nose and throat; gastroenterology; geriatrics; gynecology; nephrology; neurology and neurosurgery; orthopaedics; pulmonology; and urology.

The U.S. News Best Hospitals ranking summarizes the quality of inpatient care, examining reputation as well as several measurable and verifiable factors that have a direct link to the quality of patient care, including the balance of nurses to patients, mortality statistics, patient safety, numbers of procedures conducted and other care-related measures. The complete rankings and methodology are available at http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals.

UC Davis Health System is improving lives and transforming health care by providing excellent patient care, conducting groundbreaking research, fostering innovative, interprofessional education, and creating dynamic, productive partnerships with the community. The academic health system includes one of the country's best medical schools, a 631-bed acute-care teaching hospital, a 1000-member physician's practice group and the new Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. It is home to a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center, an international neurodevelopmental institute, a stem cell institute and a comprehensive children's hospital. Other nationally prominent centers focus on advancing telemedicine, improving vascular care, eliminating health disparities and translating research findings into new treatments for patients. Together, they make UC Davis a hub of innovation that is transforming health for all. For more information, visit healthsystem.ucdavis.edu.

Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean

Healing sick and injured people is both an enormous responsibility and honor. Each year at UC Davis Health, we care for tens of thousands of patients and train hundreds of students and residents to be compassionate, skilled caregivers. Our leadership teams are committed to values-based leadership, which includes inclusivity, collaboration and integrity. Together with our talented faculty, students, residents and staff, we are forging new paths in research, health-professional education and patient care.

UC Davis School of Medicineis one of the nation's leading medical schools, recognized for its research and primary-care programs. Ranked 34th in National Institutes of Health funding in 2013, it is designated as one of the nation’s inaugural Clinical Translational Science Centers.

A few highlights include:

A national reputation for life-changing biomedical discoveries

A passion for clinical care and a commitment to engaging people from underserved communities and advancing rural health

TheBetty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis cultivates academic excellence and addresses urgent, societal needs through leadership development, interprofessional education, transformative research, cultural inclusiveness and innovative technology. The school plays a critical role in preparing nurse leaders who will shape the future of health care and inform health policy.

The School of Nursing has five research focus areas: chronic disease management, health technology, pain management, Healthy People and Healthy Systems.Faculty come from a wide range of backgrounds including nursing, business administration, sociology, gerontology, medicine, information technology and psychology. School of Nursing students engage in classroom and clinical environments with students in the School of Medicine, health informatics and other health-related programs.

The Practice Management Group (TPMG) represents all organized medical group practices of UC Davis Health System’s primary and specialty care faculty physicians. The group's purpose is to serve the health system’s missions through high-quality, cost-effective care delivery. By delegation from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Dean, TPMG has shared responsibility for the clinical operations of the health system's professional practice activities.

The formation of TPMG is an important step in formalizing the leadership of the health system's medical group practices and in refining the role of its group practice in achieving the health system's research, teaching, patient care and community engagement goals. Its primary goal is to maintain a clinical practice that distinguishes UC Davis Health System as a leading faculty and academic health center.

Specific goals of TPMG include:

Increasing efficiency of practice and revenue

Decreasing practice expenses

Reducing silos and improving integration

Identifying areas to increase quality

Aligning incentives

David H. Wisner is the executive director of thePractice Management Group, overseeing faculty practice operations as well as the overall vision and strategic direction of TPMG and its day-to-day activities. Wisner collaborates with the leadership of theSchool of Medicineandmedical centerto set and achieve joint strategic goals across the health system.